On Lying 29
29 Section 29 PL 40, 507
29. As that, “Take no thought for the morrow,” and, “Take therefore no thought what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or what ye shall put on.” Now when we see that the Lord Himself had a bag in which was put what was given, that it might be kept for necessary uses as the time should require; and that the Apostles themselves made much provision for the indigence of the brethren, not only for the morrow, but even for the more protracted time of impending dearth, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles; it is sufficiently clear that these precepts are so to be understood, that we are to do nothing of our work as matter of necessity, through love of obtaining temporal things, or fear of want.
Sicut illud, Nolite cogitare de crastino; et, Nolite itaque cogitare quid manducetis, et quid bibatis, et quid induamini . Cum autem videmus et ipsum Dominum habuisse loculos, quo ea quae dabantur, mittebantur, ut servari possent ad usus pro tempore necessarios ; et ipsos Apostolos procurasse multa fratrum indigentiae, non solum in crastinum, sed etiam in prolixius tempus impendentis famis, sicut in Actibus Apostolorum legimus : satis elucet illa praecepta sic intelligenda, ut nihil operis nostri temporalium adipiscendorum amore vel timore egestatis tanquam ex necessitate faciamus.